Written by: Shirley Sterling
First line: Today my teacher Mr. Oiko taught us how to write
journals.
Why you should read this book: Based on her own experiences
as an Indian child forced to attend a residential school in Canada in the
1950s, this book is by turns eye-opening and heart-breaking. The trend toward
assimilation, enforced by law, deprives Martha Stone and the other children at
the Kalamak Indian Residential School, of the knowledge of the land possessed
by their ancestors, and the joy in home life they crave. Instead, they suffer
the degradation of having their own culture denigrated by nuns, some of whom
are kind, but many of whom are not.
Why you shouldn’t read this book: You're a nun.
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